This is a smart move for Google to drum up customers for its Chromebooks for Business service.

Specifically: Google will give companies $US100 for each Chromebook they buy plus they get another $US100 off the Chromebook if they also buy a service from VMware called Horizon Desktop as a Service (DaaS).

Horizon costs start at $US35 per month per device, VMware says. Horizon delivers Windows and all of a corporation’s Windows apps over a corporate network or the Internet. In other words, you get your Windows desktop running in a window on a Chromebook from the cloud.

Chromebooks range in price from $US199 to $US329. Businesses must also buy Google’s Management console and support, which costs $US150 per device. That feature lets a single IT person manage a company’s fleet of Chromebooks, doing things like creating and revoking corporate Google passwords.